Historical information: Jesse O. Sawyer (1918-1986) received his Ph.D. in English and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1955. From 1957-1962 he was the director of the English Program for Foreign Students in the Department of Speech at UC Berkeley, then a Senior Lecturer in linguistics from 1962 until his death in 1986. From 1961 onwards he was also the Director of UC Berkeley's Language Lab, now the Berkeley Language Center. Over the course of his career he worked on a variety of topics related to the indigenous languages of California, especially the documentation of Wappo in close cooperation with speaker Laura Fish Somersal.

Scope and content: The Papers document Sawyer's nearly three decades of research on indigenous languages of California, especially members of the Yukian family. The collection includes Wappo field notes collected from the late 1950s to the 1980s and derived materials such as vocabulary files and descriptive and comparative articles. His principal Wappo consultant was Laura Fish Somersal, with additional data provided by Jack Wobo. Sawyer's Yuki consultants were Minnie Fulwider, Arthur Anderson, and Leland Fulwider. The collection also includes Sawyer's notes and linguistic data from other languages of California taken from various published and unpublished sources.

Historical information: Sylvia M. Broadbent was a student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving the Ph.D. degree in 1960. Her dissertation, entitled A Grammar of Southern Sierra Miwok, was based on fieldwork conducted on five summer field trips spanning 1955-1958 and 1961. This grammatical description published as The Southern Sierra Miwok Language (University of California Publications in Linguistics, vol. 38, 1964), which also included a collection of texts and a dictionary. After leaving Berkeley, Broadbent held positions at Barnard College and the University of California, Riverside, where she pursued research interests in the ethnohistory and archaeology of Chibchan cultures of central Columbia.

Scope and content: The Papers document Sylvia Broadbent's field research on Miwok languages in 1955-1958 and 1961. The collection includes her original field notebooks and vocabulary file slips, as well as diaries she kept while in the field. Her primary Southern Sierra Miwok linguistic consultants were Chris Brown (a.k.a. Chief Leeme), Castro Johnson, Emma Lord, and Rose Watt. Additional consultants represented in the collection include John Lawrence (Southern Sierra Miwok) and Ned Aleck, George Clifford, Rose Darrow, and Mrs. Henry Miller (Northern Sierra Miwok). The collection also includes an undated set of notes on Ohlone recorded with speaker Maria Tapia.

Description: Undated verifax copy, original dated September 6, 1957. Summary of a survey of remaining speakers of Costanoan languages based on research conducted October 1956 - September 1957. Includes 2-page wordlist.(The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Thompson.001.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Thompson.001.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Thompson.001-image_metadata.txt.)

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Preferred citation: Costanoan survey, Thompson.001, in "Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2RN35TW

Description: List of tribelet names as recorded in the Spanish missions, some with phonemic interpretations. Prepared for an exhibit on California Indians at the Oakland Museum. Includes phone messages and correspondence to Sawyer from Kathy Williams of the Museum.(The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Sawyer.007.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Sawyer.007.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Sawyer.007-image_metadata.txt.)

Preferred citation: Spanish mission names for Bay Area Indian tribelets, Sawyer.007, in "Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2Q81B1S

Description: Photocopies of Heizer's published Pinart and Henshaw vocabularies with hand annotations.

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Preferred citation: The Mission Indian vocabularies of Alphonse Pinart and H. W. Henshaw, Heizer.001, in "Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1292

Description: Six pages of vocabulary.(The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Broadbent.001.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Broadbent.001.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Broadbent.001-image_metadata.txt.)

Preferred citation: [Ohlone vocabulary], Broadbent.001, in "Sylvia M. Broadbent Papers on the Southern Sierra Miwok Language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2V985Z2